arXiv:2512.09185cs.CVcs.AI2025-12中稿 · ed被引 9

用流匹配建模患者疾病动态,实现可解释的连续进展生成。

Learning Patient-Specific Disease Dynamics with Latent Flow Matching for Longitudinal Imaging Generation

  • 将疾病进展视为速度场,用流匹配对齐患者时序数据。
  • 在三个纵向MRI数据集上生成效果优于现有方法,且轨迹单调递增。
  • 适合关注个性化医疗与疾病可视化研究的临床与算法学者。

理解疾病进展是临床核心挑战,直接影响早期诊断与个性化治疗。尽管近年生成方法尝试建模进展,但存在关键缺陷:疾病动态本质连续且单调,而潜在表示常散乱无结构,扩散模型更因随机去噪破坏连续性。本文将疾病动态视为速度场,采用流匹配(Flow Matching, FM)对齐患者数据的时间演化。不同于以往方法,该框架捕捉疾病内在动态,提升可解释性。然而,关键挑战仍存:潜在空间中自编码器(AE)无法保证跨患者对齐或与临床严重度指标(如年龄、病情)相关联。为此,提出学习患者特定潜在对齐,强制患者轨迹沿特定轴分布,且幅度随疾病严重度单调增加,从而构建一致且语义明确的潜在空间。结合上述,提出Δ-LFM框架,用于建模患者特异性潜在进展。在三个纵向MRI基准测试中,Δ-LFM表现优异,并提供一种新框架以解释和可视化疾病动态。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding disease progression is a central clinical challenge with direct implications for early diagnosis and personalized treatment. While recent generative approaches have attempted to model progression, key mismatches remain: disease dynamics are inherently continuous and monotonic, yet latent representations are often scattered, lacking semantic structure, and diffusion-based models disrupt continuity with random denoising process. In this work, we propose to treat the disease dynamic as a velocity field and leverage Flow Matching (FM) to align the temporal evolution of patient data. Unlike prior methods, it captures the intrinsic dynamic of disease, making the progression more interpretable. However, a key challenge remains: in latent space, Auto-Encoders (AEs) do not guarantee alignment across patients or correlation with clinical-severity indicators (e.g., age and disease conditions). To address this, we propose to learn patient-specific latent alignment, which enforces patient trajectories to lie along a specific axis, with magnitude increasing monotonically with disease severity. This leads to a consistent and semantically meaningful latent space. Together, we present $Δ$-LFM, a framework for modeling patient-specific latent progression with flow matching. Across three longitudinal MRI benchmarks, $Δ$-LFM demonstrates strong empirical performance and, more importantly, offers a new framework for interpreting and visualizing disease dynamics.

疾病进展流匹配医学影像生成模型

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